Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Kirkus Prize: Nonfiction 2026
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The New Yorker: TV Shows: 2018

My Not-Top-Ten Television List Emily Nussbaum · New Yorker
My Favorite TV Shows of 2018 Troy Patterson · New Yorker

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award
The 50 Best Movies of 2025 Guardian
Fiction 2026 National Book Award
Fiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
Nonfiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Albums of 2020 The Ringer
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Fiction 2026 Women's Prize
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone

Trending Works

The Tsugua Diaries Maureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomes
Catch the Devil Pamela Colloff
2000 Meters to Andriivka Mstyslav Chernov
love has never been a popular movement. TYGAPAW
This Is Where the Serpent Lives Daniyal Mueenuddin
Moon of the Turning Leaves Waubgeshig Rice
Black Folk Could Fly Randall Kenan
Best Things First Bjørn Lomborg
London Falling Patrick Radden Keefe
The Consciousness Instinct Michael S. Gazzaniga
The Man Who Couldn’t Miss Screenings Damon Packard
Science Without Substance Daniel Barnett
Lumi Vaientaa Kysymykset Circle of Ouroborus
Luna, Phoenix, Queen Julie Orringer

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